īrantley Gilbert was in a near-fatal truck accident when he was 19. In 2013, Gilbert embarked on an eight-day USO tour to entertain American service members stationed in Italy and Kuwait. In 2019, they welcomed their second child, a daughter. In 2017, Gilbert and his wife welcomed their first child, a son. In 2017, on his "The Devil Don't Sleep" tour, he announced he would be a father in November. He admitted that she was the girl who inspired his singles "You Don't Know Her Like I Do" and "More Than Miles", among several others. In June 2015, Gilbert married Georgia school teacher Amber Cochran in a small ceremony at his home. They were engaged on January 20, 2013, his 28th birthday. They met at the CMT Music Awards in June 2012. It was announced in September 2012 that Brantley Gilbert was dating country music singer and actress Jana Kramer. In March 2022, Gilbert and Jason Aldean released the single "Rolex® on a Redneck". In June 2021, Gilbert released the single "The Worst Country Song of All Time", featuring Hardy and Toby Keith, and followed it up with the single "Gone But Not Forgotten" in September 2021. In June 2020, Gilbert released the single " Hard Days." The song was later included on a deluxe edition of Fire & Brimstone. "Fire’t Up" was released as the second single off the album. In December 2018, Gilbert released a duet with Lindsay Ell, " What Happens in a Small Town", as the leadoff single to his upcoming fifth studio album, Fire & Brimstone. 2018-present: Fire & Brimstone And Rolex On A Redneck
Also included on the album is " The Ones That Like Me." Ī deluxe edition of The Devil Don't Sleep includes ten bonus tracks: five demos, and five tracks cut from a live performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The album's fourth single was " Stone Cold Sober," released with the album's platinum edition.Īhead of his fourth album, The Devil Don't Sleep, Gilbert released the single " The Weekend" as the album's leadoff single. The third single, " One Hell of an Amen," became Brantley's fourth number one hit in 2015.
The second single, " Small Town Throwdown," featured guest vocals from labelmates Thomas Rhett and Justin Moore. Its lead single, " Bottoms Up," also reached number one. Gilbert's second Valory album (third overall), Just as I Am, was released in May 2014. 2014-2017: Just as I Am and The Devil Don't Sleep He won the ACM New Male Artist award in 2013. After them, " Kick It in the Sticks" peaked at number 34, and " More Than Miles" at number 7 on Country Airplay. Its first two singles, " Country Must Be Country Wide" and " You Don't Know Her Like I Do", both went to number one on the Hot Country Songs chart. In 2011, he signed with Valory Music Co., a division of Big Machine Records, who released a deluxe edition of Halfway to Heaven. He followed with Halfway to Heaven in 2010. In 2009, he released his debut album, A Modern Day Prodigal Son, under independent label Average Joes Entertainment. So it turned out to be a pretty strong song, and I felt like I had a little bit of help writing that one.2007-2013: A Modern Day Prodigal Son and Halfway to Heavenīrantley Gilbert went to Nashville as a songwriter, signed to Warner Chappell Publishing. proposed to a girl named Amy one night, and on his way home he was actually hit by a train and the only thing that was untouched in the whole entire accident was his Bible. I didn’t know it, but a friend of mine, Joseph Hensley. And then about six months later I was still working on it, but I changed the title to ‘Saving Amy,’ I didn’t want to put her name in it, and I played it for my cousin who had just come back from Iraq and he started tearing up, and I was like "Dude, what is it?" He said, "Number one, that’s a sad song, but I’ve been waiting for somebody to write a song about Joseph for a long time." And it clicked. Her name was not Amy, but her boyfriend had proposed to her and actually got in a car accident and died on the way home that night. I wrote it about a friend of mine from high school. I actually wrote that song - this is a crazy story -that song took me longer to write than any song I’ve ever written.